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RINO (Republican In Name Only) can only be applied to they who would vote something other than GOP if dissatisfied with the GOP's candidate.

Originally when we heard the term used, it was applied to liberal Republicans who would vote Democrat to avoid a conservative Republican being elected.

Now you want to redefine it to include all who haven't had their brains squashed by an elephant stuffed with Beltway pork and spread-eagled in Bush-love.

Face it, Bush is already lameduck. Prematurely but that's his own doing. Some of us are looking to the future of the party and its suitability to press forward a conservative agenda. If they aren't interested in us, then why exactly should we be interested in Socialism-Lite which is what they're offering us? More specifically, for the large numbers of conservatives who have tolerated the wild spending and the continuation of programs we've fought to kill for decades (NEA, PBS) and the RX disaster and the nationalization of education for the sake of promised Scalia-type Supreme Court justices, exactly what is the coin that is supposed to buy our loyalty with Roberts still unknown and Miers quite obviously a weak nominee by any rational standard? If Miers is the reward for our loyalty (following upon the still-questionable Roberts pick), it really makes conservatives wonder why we've fought for the GOP.

Whatever the question is, clearly Miers is not a suitable answer.

I expect a rejoinder that the GOP is the only game in town for conservatives. I say that's backward. For the GOP, conservatives are the only game in town. And a party whose wartime incumbent barely squeaked out a victory against a fruity gawky snob from Massachussetts isn't banking on a very sure thing. They'd better look at the ranks and stop looking at the White House for cues on what to do. The Miers disaster is a clear sign of a legislative majority blindly following an out-of-gas executive branch for too long.

This evening, for instance, I'm working on my letters to my Dim and GOP senators, both party mavericks (one from my own hometown) to insist that they must oppose Miers. And since most of you groupies don't even bother to write real letters, that leaves a clear field of fire for me...

"I expect a rejoinder that the GOP is the only game in town for conservatives. I say that's backward. For the GOP, conservatives are the only game in town. And a party whose wartime incumbent barely squeaked out a victory against a fruity gawky snob from Massachusetts isn't banking on a very sure thing."

The GOP owns the White House, both Houses of Congress, the majority of governorships, and the majority of the State Houses.

Bush was re-elected with a majority of the popular vote, the first time that's happened since Bush I, and his popular vote total, 62,000,000+, is the largest number of votes ever received by any President in an election. President Bush carried 31 out of 50 States, with 286 electoral votes.

You've never bother to hide your animosity for President Bush, but you won't get away with distorting facts in order to make a point.